Digital Media has always been a confusing venue for me, it has often seemed a waste of time due to my mother complaining of my fathers time spent with technology. My Dad is a Global Operations manager for the Telecommunications company, so this article especially spoke to me. His inability to differentiate between time spent on the phone and time spent with the family, it has never been a problem. Rather a part of life that is just accepted, because after all it puts food on the table and gas in the car. Its a little bit of a disconnection but its an accepted disconnection, there is a blurred boundary and somehow that has been an okay part of the family. It no longer aggravates me because he has somewhat initially brought me into his world. Its something special, but at the same time it is something that draws a thick line in the sand for me. I have found art to be a home away from home, something my father does not particularly have an interest in. It seems as though technology is his life, and the dissolution is the difference for me. The fact that there is a clear venue for art, and the time to desensitize is easily found within my life of technology. It shall always be there just as art is, but more and more it becomes mechanized and unrealistically fanatical when time goes on. This can be seen within the articles, and if I revert away from my tangent, there is an uncanny sense of growth that moves along with this new wave of desensitized dissolution.
Once again, digital media shall continue to be a confusing venue for feelings and abstract thoughts. Just as art has become this same venue with a bit more purpose for me. The difference is the interaction draws its boundary at a computer screen, while the life of art is limited to human interaction (at least acting). While entertainment is being brought into the mix, it is becoming more clear that live performance is not so much of a rarity, as it is a common courtesy that can even be found in mass quantity. Digital Media is confusing THE PUBLIC, and helping dissolve boundaries set by the founding fathers of interaction. It's scary, or is it?
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